"The film enjoys an actual plot....With its plot and lead performance, THE COLLECTOR is, at least, an unusual specimen."Los Angeles Times "THE COLLECTOR is a surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller..."Variety24.16668

"The film enjoys an actual plot....With its plot and lead performance, THE COLLECTOR is, at least, an unusual specimen."Los Angeles Times "THE COLLECTOR is a surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller..."Variety24.16668

"The film enjoys an actual plot....With its plot and lead performance, THE COLLECTOR is, at least, an unusual specimen."Los Angeles Times "THE COLLECTOR is a surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller..."Variety24.16668

"The film enjoys an actual plot....With its plot and lead performance, THE COLLECTOR is, at least, an unusual specimen."Los Angeles Times "THE COLLECTOR is a surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller..."Variety24.15376

"Set in the present-day, with a story line that references the original's mythology, this movie attempts to reboot the concept, if that's the word, of this undying series. The surprise is that it does so with vicious aplomb..."New York Times20.28971

"Set in the present-day, with a story line that references the original's mythology, this movie attempts to reboot the concept, if that's the word, of this undying series. The surprise is that it does so with vicious aplomb..."New York Times20.28971

"Set in the present-day, with a story line that references the original's mythology, this movie attempts to reboot the concept, if that's the word, of this undying series. The surprise is that it does so with vicious aplomb..."New York Times20.28971

"THE BEGINNING takes you back to 1969 Texas, the birth year and birthplace of everyone's favorite masked serial killer. And questions will be answered..."Widescreen Review 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] one of the most monstrous cinematic characters of all time....It has some great ideas and a high gore count."Ultimate DVD14.52222

"THE BEGINNING takes you back to 1969 Texas, the birth year and birthplace of everyone's favorite masked serial killer. And questions will be answered..."Widescreen Review 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] one of the most monstrous cinematic characters of all time....It has some great ideas and a high gore count."Ultimate DVD14.52222

"THE BEGINNING takes you back to 1969 Texas, the birth year and birthplace of everyone's favorite masked serial killer. And questions will be answered..."Widescreen Review 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] one of the most monstrous cinematic characters of all time....It has some great ideas and a high gore count."Ultimate DVD14.52222

[T]he terse hyper-violence, profane trash-talk and lean frame suggest that Hill never really left.Sight and Sound "[A]n adrenaline shot to your movie memory if the blunt, gleefully dumb, no-nonsense ways of '80s-style action flicks are your nostalgia drug of choice."Los Angeles Times "[T]he moral equivocation that allows Stallone, Kang, and Momoa to do their dirty business gives BULLET TO THE HEAD a little nuance..."A.V. Club3.946454

"Like the best war films, LONE SURVIVOR laces action with moral questions that haunt and provoke."Rolling Stone "[With] impressive physical filmmaking....Director Peter Berg delivers his most serious-minded work to date with LONE SURVIVOR, a scorching, often unbearably brutal account of a June 2005 military mission that claimed the lives of 19 U.S. soldiers..."Variety "Peter Berg's screen version of Marcus Luttrell's book is remarkably good at dramatizing the notorious 2005 Navy SEAL operation that went horrifically bad."Wall Street Journal "Berg has a knack for capturing men at work; his depiction of special-ops maneuvering -- of silently casing the enemy base, of planning the attack -- is as compelling as the chaotic violence he orchestrates later." -- Grade: B-A.V. Club "Captured in uncompromising detail by director of photography Tobias Schliessler, this movie is not for the faint of heart."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- ""Brutal, unrelenting and ultimately moving....[A] true story of a botched Navy SEAL raid in Afghanistan..."USA Today "[A] combat movie with the spare, clean contours of an old Western, as attuned to ethical questions as it is to gunplay and hot pursuit."New York Times "LONE SURVIVOR burns with the fever of a passion project. Writer-director Peter Berg's gratitude to United States servicemen for all their sacrifice comes through viscerally, from first frame to last..."RogerEbert.com "Berg has made a powerful film and an important reminder of what really happens when we send men and women off to war."Entertainment Weekly "Berg delivers one of the most shocking, gruesome and devastating depictions of war ever put on film."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]f you need reminding that 'war is hell', Berg serves it with unstinting first-person ferocity."Total Film0.2072267

"Like the best war films, LONE SURVIVOR laces action with moral questions that haunt and provoke."Rolling Stone "[With] impressive physical filmmaking....Director Peter Berg delivers his most serious-minded work to date with LONE SURVIVOR, a scorching, often unbearably brutal account of a June 2005 military mission that claimed the lives of 19 U.S. soldiers..."Variety "Peter Berg's screen version of Marcus Luttrell's book is remarkably good at dramatizing the notorious 2005 Navy SEAL operation that went horrifically bad."Wall Street Journal "Berg has a knack for capturing men at work; his depiction of special-ops maneuvering -- of silently casing the enemy base, of planning the attack -- is as compelling as the chaotic violence he orchestrates later." -- Grade: B-A.V. Club "Captured in uncompromising detail by director of photography Tobias Schliessler, this movie is not for the faint of heart."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- ""Brutal, unrelenting and ultimately moving....[A] true story of a botched Navy SEAL raid in Afghanistan..."USA Today "[A] combat movie with the spare, clean contours of an old Western, as attuned to ethical questions as it is to gunplay and hot pursuit."New York Times "LONE SURVIVOR burns with the fever of a passion project. Writer-director Peter Berg's gratitude to United States servicemen for all their sacrifice comes through viscerally, from first frame to last..."RogerEbert.com "Berg has made a powerful film and an important reminder of what really happens when we send men and women off to war."Entertainment Weekly "Berg delivers one of the most shocking, gruesome and devastating depictions of war ever put on film."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]f you need reminding that 'war is hell', Berg serves it with unstinting first-person ferocity."Total Film0.2072267

"In McG's new world order, the machines now rule with enforcers of every shape imaginable roaming the the land....[T]here are enough pyrotechnics and heavy artillery to feel like Armageddon squared....Los Angeles Times "The first two-thirds of the film features an array of impressive setpieces that bring the trademark TERMINATOR action sensibility -- quivering flesh and fragile machingery versus the pitiless approach of unfeeling circuits -- into a dusty, post-nuclear hellscape on loand from THE ROAD WARRIOR."A.V. Club "[The movie] has a brute integrity lacking in some of the other seasonal franchise movies....[The action is] loud and blunt, a symphony of screaming gears, anguished torque and thumping collisions of metal and flesh."New York Times "The world McG presents to us is scorched and hostile, and the action is startling and visceral. Significantly, TERMINATOR SALVATION takes itself far more seriously than its predecessors."Washington Post "Mr. Worthington's specialty is taking command of the camera. It's fascinating to watch him dominate scene after scene with his coiled energy, compelling voice and quick intelligence."Wall Street Journal "Bale brings the role his usual stylish, seething edge..."Entertainment Weekly0.1710989

"In McG's new world order, the machines now rule with enforcers of every shape imaginable roaming the the land....[T]here are enough pyrotechnics and heavy artillery to feel like Armageddon squared....Los Angeles Times "The first two-thirds of the film features an array of impressive setpieces that bring the trademark TERMINATOR action sensibility -- quivering flesh and fragile machingery versus the pitiless approach of unfeeling circuits -- into a dusty, post-nuclear hellscape on loand from THE ROAD WARRIOR."A.V. Club "[The movie] has a brute integrity lacking in some of the other seasonal franchise movies....[The action is] loud and blunt, a symphony of screaming gears, anguished torque and thumping collisions of metal and flesh."New York Times "The world McG presents to us is scorched and hostile, and the action is startling and visceral. Significantly, TERMINATOR SALVATION takes itself far more seriously than its predecessors."Washington Post "Mr. Worthington's specialty is taking command of the camera. It's fascinating to watch him dominate scene after scene with his coiled energy, compelling voice and quick intelligence."Wall Street Journal "Bale brings the role his usual stylish, seething edge..."Entertainment Weekly0.1710989